Summary
Jayson Yan is a software engineer with eight years of experience building data-intensive and consumer-facing systems, currently contributing to Databricks in San Francisco. A University of Waterloo software engineering student by training, he brings hands-on internship experience at Google, Splunk, Wish and several startups, demonstrating versatility across backend, mobile, and platform teams. His trajectory shows rapid growth from iOS and mobile development roles into large-scale data platform engineering, blending product-minded thinking with pragmatic implementation. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, he has a track record of shipping features under tight timelines and learning new stacks quickly. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs strong academic foundations with real-world systems experience and a curiosity for scalable, data-driven architectures.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Iroquois Ridge High School
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo